This CNN business article claims that "worker activism is reaching a fever pitch" but describes the opposite—how vocal organizers took a large severance payment from Google and moved on to lucrative (and presumably more fulfilling) jobs elsewhere.https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/tech/google-walkout-one-year-later-risk-takers/index.html …
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Silicon Valley had a burgeoning labor movement in 2017! https://www.salon.com/2017/09/04/silicon-valleys-burgeoning-labor-movement/ … We were setting up a union to resist Trump! https://qz.com/916534/silicon-valley-tech-workers-are-talking-about-starting-their-first-union-in-2017-to-resist-trump/ …pic.twitter.com/pjsr8vv7BZ
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Worker organizing efforts were "coalescing" last August at Google!https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1030349005497229312 …
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Unions were coming to tech, for real this time, in April of 2018.https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/984128921988808704 …
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Not much is certain about the future, but I can guarantee you a steady stream of articles for years to come about how tech workers are finally standing up from their very comfortable chairs and organizing
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The unequivocal success story (mentioned in a bunch of these stories) is service workers at the tech companies unionizing. Their hard work and success, against steep odds, is a remarkable contrast to the failure of even the mildest efforts to organize engineers and programmers
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